Email from Sally Hearn, Wildings Water Garden, Hadspen
To Peter May, The photo attached is a picture of my client Edward Hobhouse's gold koi fish welcoming the first warm day of spring - on the 31st March. The water garden was installed several years ago when
Wildings water garden, Hadspen the garden enjoyed a re-birth. I have worked here for nearly seven years and Edward jestingly, (I hope) calls me his lazy gardener! Which is why I'm sending you two photo's of the water garden the Hobhouse family and myself lovingly tend - with a message to all 'lazy gardeners' -
A Water Garden is a lazy gardeners, 'must have'. The virtues of the summer pond / water feature are easily extolled; and my chosen spot for lolling away warm summer days - but when there's little going on in the flower beds, the trees are stark and the shrubs look like dead sticks; the power and beauty of the water garden comes into its own. The reflected colour and hues of winter and early spring skies enjoy central stage; add some wind, and a million watery visions, images and illusions pass before your eyes - no effort needed. Add some gold and silver koi fish and the spell is cast. There isn't a gardener on this earth who could compete - and once established, very little work is required and it never needs digging. . .
from Sally Hearn ( lazy gardener)